Quotes About Upward

You refuse all help, reject all hope, and seem intent on living the most abject existence possible. If anyone is punishing you, look inward, not upward.

When you're at the bottom, there's no place to go but up," said

To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.

being let go is still another step upward on the ladder of life.

smoke came streaking upward. Then other threads of white began just outside the landing grid. They rushed after the first. The original rockets seemed to dodge. Others came up. There was an intricate pattern formed by the smoke trails of rockets rising and other rockets following, and some trails

I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

The old myth traveled upward and outward; the new travels downward and inward.

Life is rarely a straight line moving upward across a page. Real life is more like a beautiful scribble, looping across the page. Life is complex and unpredictable, and because of our powers of imagination and creativity we are able to navigate it.

bed and watch distant flashes of lightning illuminate the inside of giant, looming thunderheads six or seven miles high. The earth itself had ceased to be the prime element in my consciousness. This was a land of the sky, and every turn, every action, lifted the eye upward.

That we are bound to the earth does not mean that we cannot grow; on the contrary it is the sine qua non of growth. No noble, well-grown tree ever disowned its dark roots, for it grows not only upward but downward as well.

are there also prisons in Hell for those who never saw the inside of one while they were alive? Incidentally - mustn't it be a peculiarly beautiful feeling to hit bottom in reality at least once, where there is no going down any further, but only upward beckons at best? Where for once one stands before the whole height of reality?

Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?

Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.

I was in a place composed of tall spires. There was a sound, not Mozartiana, but a kind of shattering, prophetic, organ-like sound, and I was walking on the vibrating spires upward from one pinnacle to another. It wasn't precarious. My footing was very stable; I was holding on to the air.

If you ever look at my history of coaching in South Africa, no team has ever gone down. And I'm talking about places in the league. They've always gone up.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another." – Aristocles, son of Ariston

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

I'm a beneficiary of an extraordinary education, and I believe that no matter where you live, the access to education is key to social mobility.

Businesses, not benefits, are the true ladder of social mobility.